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Explore the Mandelbrot set with Baby X. Really just a test of Baby X's graphics handling capabilities. Now ported to Windows as well as Linux, using Baby X's cross-platform capabilities.

The baby rabbit curve is made by taking the golden string (rabbit breeding distribution), turning left for a mature rabbit at an even position, right for a mature rabbit at an odd position, and straight ahead for a baby rabbit. It's built using the Baby X toolkit.

Biomorphs are a way of explaining evolution invented by Richard Dawkins. The shapes are controlled by a small set of genes, which give colour, segment length, size, and degree of recursion. By changing a gene by a small amount, a small difference is made in neighbours. Many fascinating shapes can be found, and you can often home in on a desired shape by selecting relatives that are closer to your goal. The program uses the Baby X toolkit.

Perlin noise is a form of noise with local coherence. It's used in creating all kinds of graphics, from wood efffects to marble. The editor lets you create an image with Perlin noise interactively, and save it as a gif. You can change the noise parameters, and you can edit the palette, either loading it from a gif, or using the palette editor (right click to open the color picker, left click to move the two selection points about). There's also a handy tool for tuning the palette as the...

Tux's Turtle is a drawing environment for children. It uses geometrically-based "turtle graphics" (well known from Logo) but is completely immediate and programmed using single keypresses (like Delta Drawing). No knowledge of the editor is necessary.